Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giving a reverse twist to the same basic idea, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (5,200 stores in the midwest) approached publishers last year with the proposal: "The average chain grocery is handier to the home than the average drug store. Why not sell through us?" Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name...
...literary stud-horses of Vassar and the fillies of Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy, the passion that coils in verbs and nouns and suddenly leaps forth in an orgasm of adjectives and epithets...
...need be. For his stories are so entirely different from anything else that has ever been written, his style and his climatic turn is so distinctly original that comparison is fruitless. The stories are short to a marked degree, they are packed into so few words that their ironic twist makes them jump out at the reader like Jack released from...
Elsie Janis, musicomedienne, explained why she carried her arm in a sling: she had been wrestling, clowning with Cinemactor Ramon Novarro at her Hollywood home. Said she: "It was just too ridiculous. ... I was just about ready to claim victory when he gave his body a slight twist and my shoulder slipped out of place...
...estimated that over $5,000,000 was spent in Boston during the convention. That business should therefore wink at the truth is-natural. But it is a peculiar twist of public morality which leads the mayors of Boston and Cambridge to hasten to express indignation at honest and justified criticism, when their criticism could have been so much more effective had it been directed against the conditions surrounding the Legion Convention itself. A little intellectual honesty and straight thinking in public would be distinct assets to nearly all of our officials...